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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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29.2. Rendering Graphical Data Using Shapes

Members of the System.Windows.Shapes namespace provide the most straightforward, most interactive, yetmost memory-intensive way to render a two-dimensional image. This namespace (defined in the PresentationFramework.dll assembly) is quite small and consists of only six sealed classes that extend the abstract Shape base class: Ellipse, Rectangle, Line, Polygon, Polyline, and Path.

Create a new WPF Application named RenderingWithShapes. Now, if you locate the abstract Shape class in the Visual Studio 2010 object browser (see Figure 29-1) and expand each of the parent nodes, you can see that each descendent of Shape receives a great deal of functionality up the inheritance chain.

Figure 29.1. The Shape ...
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